Germany’s second-biggest airline, Air Berlin, on Monday said it has cancelled flights this month to Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the Red Sea because of deteriorating security for foreign tourists on the Sinai Peninsula. The suspension will last until April … read more
Former Egyptian finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali was detained in Paris on Monday on an international warrant over corruption charges relating to his time in former president Hosni Mubarak’s government, the state news agency reported. Boutros Ghali was sentenced in … read more
A retired army general says he has filed a court case pushing for Egypt’s historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery to be demolished and its Greek monks deported on the grounds that they pose a threat to national security. In May 2012, … read more
Amnesty International issued a statement on Friday denouncing a counter-terrorism law drafted by the Egyptian government, saying that it must be scrapped or fundamentally revised. According to the statement, the draft law has expanded the existing definition of terrorism … read more
On the streets of Egypt Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – the top general who ousted ex-president Mohamed Morsi last summer – reached superhuman status months ago. Now the digital world has caught up: developers have released a Sisi-themed arcade-style game for … read more
Egyptian security forces on Friday arrested a total of 73 demonstrators in nine provinces across the country, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry. The ministry accused detained demonstrators of “provoking riots and violence” and “plotting to block roads … read more
As summer nears, Egyptians are bracing themselves for the worst. Recurrent shortages of natural gas have hampered the country’s capacity to generate electricity which in turn has resulted in power cuts across the board. Many Egyptians have experienced the bitter … read more
Cairo’s power cuts continue with no end in sight. Recently I wrote about cutting electricity consumption by changing a few bulbs – you can read that here – but this got me thinking of what else is draining Egypt’s ailing … read more
Two explosions have struck as many areas in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, injuring a police officer amid persisting unrest in the nation following the military ouster of its first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. The first … read more
Some 3,248 people have been killed in Egypt over the seven months following the military coup against President-elect Mohamed Morsi in July last year, a new report has claimed. Released by the Wiki Thawra site, an Egyptian statistics database for … read more